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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2008
Filed:
May. 26, 2006
Applicants:
Marie A. Shatos, Athol, MA (US);
Darlene A. Dartt, Newton, MA (US);
Jose D. Rios, Woburn, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/08 (2006.01); C12N 5/00 (2006.01); A61K 35/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention encompasses isolation, culture and characterization of goblet cells in vitro from mammalian conjuctiva. Goblet cells can be cultured from conjunctiva of such mammals as, e.g., humans, rats, mice, rabbits and the like. In another aspect of the invention, the culture of goblet cells has a concentration of pure goblet cells of 10% or greater. In a further embodiment, the invention comprises an immortalized goblet cell line.